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He has a major amount of power and influence and there is fear that if you say something bad about him, or even say something that he disagrees with, it will get back to him and possibly result in it becoming far more difficult or even impossible for you to work in Egypt. Thus "the code" - in some ways probably a bit melodramatic, but it gives you an idea of the mindset and setting of a lot of the projects in Egypt.He has more or less banned a few people from working again in Egypt due to scholarly disagreements - Joann Fletcher is probably the best known and most publicly known example.